Another disclaimer, if I may: This post is pretty obviously meant for college students. It’s on collegefashion.net and the title of the post is Dorm Room Spa. I am not a college student and haven’t been one for quite some time, so that is perhaps why this pin did not thrill me as much as it should have.

Perhaps.

Probably not.

And, also, if it were really meant as a beauty treatment you can do in your dorm room with just the stuff on hand, it should probably be made out of Ramen noodles, Doritos, and pot. Just sayin’.

Anyway, it all started pretty well. I mixed up the goop into a paste, and then did my best not to eat it because OH MY GOD IT SMELLED SO GOOD. Not even kidding.

Ingredients are honey, nutmeg, and cinnamon, so it was kind of like smelling a really delicious cinnamon bun… That you then decided to smear all over your face.

Yeah. Here’s where it got weird. Probably because it was time to smear it all over my face.

(I kind of still wanted to eat it.)

I then attempted to leave the mask on my face for the prescribed 30 minutes. However, I was making some cat vomit meatballs and noticed a little extra flavor dropping in at odd intervals.

Drippage, my dear!

I really tried to leave it on for the full 30 minutes, but after a few drips, I couldn’t take it anymore.

They should have done a disclaimer about the rinsing process.

Disclaimer: If you accidentally get some of this in your eye while you are scrubbing in a circular motion to exfoliate, it will feel like you just squirted half a bottle of Sriracha in there.

Disclaimer: This makes a big shitty mess in the sink. I chose the word “shitty” carefully.

Disclaimer: You will think you have finally washed your face clean, and then when you go to towel your face, your towel will look like this.

Cick to embiggen, you know, for the full effect.

The real kick in the head about all this? I did this mask on Saturday. It is now the following Thursday and I’m having a major pre-adolescent zit-fest on my face. So, unless you’re doing the Ramen-Dorito-pot version of this (send pictures), you probably should skip it.

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The Miracle Mask

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This mask claims to be miraculous. The miracle part is inconclusive, but it does taste pretty good.

The zits are brought on by your skin cleaning itself out. The mask probably worked! But it’s good to have other products on hand, too (moisturizer, a daily cleanser, etc.) to minimize future breakouts.

I love your posts! Keep up your brave experiments for the good of us all! 🙂

And it is kind of weird that honey, nutmeg, and cinnamon might be “things you have around a dorm room”. Those are EXPENSIVE things! I barely had the money to buy laundry detergent at the dollar store! Depending on the state of cafeteria food, a Pepto Bismol mask might have been more realistic. 🙂

You are my hero! I want to be your best friend and hang with you! So glad my hubby was walking the dogs when I read this or he would have sent me to the institute, which I have thought is where I belong. You are so funny..keep it up!

Can I hang with you guys? Please?? *begs with puppy eyes* I promise I provide honey and cinnamon and bleach the towels! As I won’t have a home in the near future anyway, the Mister seems to think I’m off my bloody tree. But what do they know.

I actually love that mask. But, I have really sensitive skin, so I can only leave it on for about three minutes. It doesn’t have time to really get drippy. Never had a problem with a breakout afterward.

Ha, ha! I pinned this also, and tried it since I had all the ingredients at home. It DOES smell delicious, and I also suffered lots of drippage… I thought I was going to enjoy a spa-like moment at home (not very common), with a good book and whatever, and oh, was I wrong, my hubby was laughing at me, cause I kept going to get something to catch the drips! But fun to try, none the less!

Masks and other facial treatments cause breakouts because they are designed to exfoliate the skin and then draw the impurities to the surface. When the impurities are drawn out, there you have le zits. A facial cleanser after the mask should do the trick or minimize it.

I used this for three weeks to try to combat hormonal acne (thank you, little baby that I’m carrying!) and it did seem to minimize old acne scars…but after three weeks it should have been doing more for my skin than it did. It probably would work for college students–who still have puberty acne, not hormonal.

I tried something very similar to this, in fact it may have been this recipe and I ended up with a chemical burn. I could not leave it on for the prescribed time either, not for the dripping but for the burning. I lasted about 2 minutes. It said that it reduced redness and acted as an anti-inflammatory. I went to work looking like a lobster.

LOL You are hilarious. I just found your blog and I love it. 🙂 I must admit, I have used this exact recipe several times and you are exactly right about the drips. I never last the entire 30 minutes either. It does work well for me as far as the results though.

“It is now the following Thursday and I’m having a major pre-adolescent zit-fest on my face.” That means it worked. Masks are meant to bring out all the nasty stuff underneath your face. I’ve never tried any of these diy ones, but the kind you buy from the store I only do about bi-monthly.

You should have added a tbsp of lemon juice to it. I use this mask regularly, and despite the messiness, adding the lemon makes it amazing. I have the worst acne prone skin and this helps give it a deep clean….

Now, see, I actually like this one, for my face, anyway. But I make it super thick, adding just enough honey to make it spreadable, and then I only use it in the shower or a bubble bath. That way, I drip into the tub… or onto my Nook… 🙂 Then I rinse as well as I can, following it up with regular soap or face soap. I did try once to add some coconut oil (because we Pinterest fans all know that’s the miracle oil. LOL), and it turned into a slippery doughy mess that wouldn’t spread on my face. Guess it counteracted the stickiness of the honey. 🙂
Just don’t look in the tub when I’m done. If you forget to rinse all those spices out afterwards, be prepared for a tub scrubbing session the next day!

If you want a mask that won’t make you break out (hopefully), try mixing coffee grounds (fresh or used) with honey. Exfoliate everywhere! Definitely use it in the shower though, so if it gets in your hair it can wash out and it’s easier clean up.

Ok seriously thank you for this one because knowing that someone else broke out, probably means that I will too… Thus never EVER trying this. Also scared I’ll get it in my eye… Thanks a lot for the description on that one haha!

When using facial masks, you’re going to break out. Whether it’s because you’re allergic to it, or the fact that the mask is doing it’s job-bringing the crap in your pores to the surface. Most break outs happen 1-4 days after you use the mask, so don’t go get a super expensive facial right before a big event.

You are hilarious! And I really appreciate the fact that you let us real people know how this stuff actually works! Are there blogging awards – cuz you should certainly win one. Frickin’ awesome writing 🙂 Oh – I am NOT trying this one!

I just started reading your blog because i found it on pinterest. I can’t stop reading nor can i stop laughing until i cry. i’m gonna be a freshman in college this week and once i read “it should probably be made out of Ramen noodles, Doritos, and pot” i completely lost it! i laughed until i cried and almost peed myself! i love you!!!!!!!

@fuzzybat06 Many dermatologists I’ve read have said that the whole “it works if you break out after ’cause it brought the junk out” is wrong. If it worked it would have unclogged the pores and she would not have broken out. If you break out after something it’s because it did the opposite and clogged the pores.

A product that works unclogs pores or kills bacteria. After either you don’t break out.

Except Retin-A Micro works exactly like this. Used that for a few months (it made me break out horribly after 2 weeks and that lasted another 2ish weeks), but after that, my skin has been absolutely perfect for years!… Just sayin.

I am SO mad! I found this mask on Pinterest earlier tonight and tried it. It failed, obviously…it’s terrible. THEN, I found this blog, namely this post. I wish I would have found you an hour earlier and saved myself a bunch of sticky, awful messiness.

I do this mask all the time and it works brilliantly! I had major scarring from acne growing up and my skin is nearly flawless….if you use less honey it isn’t as drippy. Hilarious none the less but still a great mask alternative.

I actually really like this mask (but I add lemon for an extra kick). Use a lil less honey and lay down for the 30 min! But either way you are hilarious and it does sting like a mother if it gets in your eyes!!

My daughter and I did this about 2 months ago. Me: “Daughter, let’s bond over facials. I found this nifty one on pinterest that we should try.”
We took turns painting it on each others faces with a brush. We laughed our asses off watching each other try to contain the drippage and the mystery is … why on earth did I refrigerate the rest of it? I will not ever use that drippy concoction again. I do agree though…It smelled pretty yummy.

I did this mask with Lemon in it, and i love it! The first time i did it my face burned for 5 minutes but, i was told that means its working. I do it about once a week, and i actually have noticed change to my face! the redness, and scaring from my acne is going away.Yes, it is drippy and i have yet to get it to be thick like they say. but i work with it, and its okay.Love your

I tried this mask a couple times (I was somehow under the impression it was working…which it was not) and first of all, it looks NOTHING like the picture. It also really burned and left my face red, but that could just be my sensitive skin. Im pretty sure it did nothing for my forehead breakouts, but it did taste good 😛

Careful note should be taken in choosing the right mixing equipment for lotion manufacturing to avoid agglomerates and long processing times. It can make all the difference in manufacturing time and costs.

I actually do this on a regular basis (I didn’t get it of pinterest, I found it years ago while trying to figure out how to take care of my adult acne while not destroying my super sensitive and allergic to everything skin). It does actually work for me but I will agree that its a pain. Sometimes I add an egg yolk to because I’ve been told by a million people that egg helps acne. It seems to work better with the egg (and then Im not tempted t eat it lol)

I love your blog, just and FYI and someone has probably already mentioned this, but if you are breaking out then the mask works, the point of the mask is to bring impurities to the top of the skin. The only way for those impurities to get out of your skin is the way they came in, so the breakout is a great sign. I would use the mask a few more times. The same thing happened to me when I started using my Clarisonic, two weeks into it, I looked like a teenager with puberty, but about a month after daily use, my face looked great and now I cannot go without it.

Hard to believe you’re a college student and don’t know how to spell ‘definitely.’ Anyway, I’m a college student, too, and I think it’s hilarious. Sorry you’re wasting your money on an education that’s giving you a closed mind!

The last time I used some cinnamon on my face I felt the istant urge to scratch my skin off together with the mask…and after washing away the whole stuff, I was left with a reeeeally red and swollen up face.
Does it smell good? YEP.
Will I ever do it again? NO. ^^’
(Will I still try stupid mixture I find on Pinterest? Obviously yes……..)

The faces are awesome, I love ’em! The extra flavor probably only helped the cat vomit meatballs 😀 And, seriously, college students don’t really have *spices* lying around — it was about all I could do, when I lived in a dorm, to have real food lying around (a condition that did not get better when I started living on my own!)

I make this all the time and if its that drippy you did it wrong lol. I think everyone has such different skin it doesn’t work for everyone because it works great on me. I have pretty sensitive skin and never had a problem and it really cleans my pores well. I also add a little cayenne pepper sometimes for a little extra heat on mt face.

I have never laughed so hard in my laugh! HILARIOUS! This blog is the funniest thing I’ve stumbled across in a very long while! Thank you for taking the time to post all of your Pin Tests! You are awesome, my dear!